CONTENTS
Preface ix
Introduction xiii RICHARD AMBROSINI and RICHARD DURY
List of Abbreviations xxix
PART I
The Pleasures of Reading, Writing, and Popular Culture
Stevenson, Morris, and the Value of Idleness 3 STEPHEN ARATA
Living in a Book: RLS as an Engaged Reader 13 R. L. ABRAHAMSON
The Four Boundary-Crossings of R. L. Stevenson, Novelist and Anthropologist 23 RICHARD AMBROSINI
Stevenson and the (Un)familiar: The Aesthetics of Late-Nineteenth-Century Biography 36 LIZ FARR vi Contents
The Greenhouse vs. the Glasshouse: Stevenson's Stories as Textual Matrices 48 NATHALIE JAECK
Trading Texts: Negotiations of the Professional and the Popular in the Case of Treasure Island 60 GLENDA NORQUAY
Stevenson and Popular Entertainment 70 STEPHEN DONOVAN
Tontines, Tontine Insurance, and Commercial Culture: Stevenson and Osbourne's The Wrong Box 83 GORDON HIRSCH
PART II
Scotland and the South Seas
The Master of Ballantrae, or The Writing of Frost and Stone 97 JEAN-PIERRE NAUGRETTE
Quarreling with the Father 109 LUISA VILLA
Figures in a Landscape: Scott, Stevenson, and Routes to the Past 121 JENNI CALDER
Burking the Scottish Body: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Resurrection Men 133 CAROLINE MCCRACKEN-FLESHER
Stevenson's Unfinished Autopsy of the Other 145 ILARIA B. SBORGI
Voices of the Scottish Empire 158 MANFRED MALZAHN
Stevenson and the Property of Language: Narrative, Value, Modernity 169 ROBBIE B. H. GOH
Light, Darkness, and Shadow: Stevenson in the South Seas 181 ANN C. COLLEY Contents VI1
Violence in the South Seas: Stevenson, the Eye, and Desire 190 RALPH PARFECT
Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: The South Seas from Journal to Fiction 199 OLIVER S. BUCKTON
PART II I
Evolutionary Psychology, Masculinity, and Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Romance, and Evolutionary Psychology 215 JULIA REID
Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Evolution: Crossing the Boundaries between Ideas and Art 228 OLENA M. TURNBULL
Crossing the Bounds of Single Identity: Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde and a Paper in a French Scientific Journal 237 RICHARD DURY
"City of Dreadful Night": Stevenson's Gothic London 253 LINDA DRYDEN
Pious Works: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Modern Individual in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde 16^ RICHARD J. WALKER
Dr. Jekyil and Mr. Hyde. A "Men's Narrative" of Hysteria and Containment 275 JANE V. RAGO
Consumerism and Stevenson's Misfit Masculinities 286 DENNIS DENISOFF
"Markheim" and the Shadow of the Other 299 MICHELA VANON ALLIATA viii Contents
PART IV
Textual and Cultural Crossings Masters of the Hovering Life: Robert Musil and R. L. Stevenson 315 ALAN SANDISON Whitman and Thoreau as Literary Stowaways in Stevenson's American Writings 327 WENDY R. KATZ The Pirate Chief in Salgari, Stevenson, and Calvino 338 ANN LAWSON LUCAS Murder by Suggestion: El sueno de los heroes and The Master ofBallantrae 348 DANIEL BALDERSTON
Contributors 359 Index of Stevenson's Works 365 General Index 369 PPN: 254680941 Titel: Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries / ed. by Richard Ambrosini .... - Madison, Wis. [u.a.] : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 ISBN: 0-299-21220-3Hbk.; 0-299-21224-6Pbk. Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund